Chris Preimesberger

Enterprise business intelligence provider Birst has made its cloud-based analytics service a lot more intuitive for line-of-business employees to use by incorporating new visual discovery capabilities. Birst Visualizer, launched Dec. 10, is a new feature within the subscription service that adds Google-like search and Amazon-like recommendations to reduce time-to-answer on queries. But that’s hardly the […]

Oracle CEO and co-founder Larry Ellison didn’t have the America’s Cup weighing on his shoulders like he did last September, so he was able to participate Dec. 18 in delivering his company’s fiscal report. Like the results from the international boat race, Ellison helped deliver a generally good report. Oracle revealed that its fiscal second-quarter […]

Storage networking chip maker LSI Corp., which has been busy acquiring other companies the past few years to gain market share, itself has been acquired. Avago Technologies, a Singapore-based company that also makes processors that power both wireless and wired communications equipment, said Dec. 17 that it will acquire San Jose, Calif.-based LSI for $6.6 […]

Business Intelligence: 10 New Year’s Resolutions for the Sector by Chris Preimesberger Humanization of IT For a while now, we’ve been talking about the consumerization of IT. However, we’ve moved into the next phase of the technology evolution: the humanization of IT. Advances in technology—think touch, voice, mobile and maybe wearable—are allowing users to reconsider […]

That Mysterious Shadow IT: 10 Things IT Administrators Need to Know By Chris Preimesberger Myth No. 1: Shadow IT Is for Shady Characters Have you ever used your personal smartphone at work? Is your department the lone Google Docs adopter in the company? Guess what? That’s shadow IT. People using apps and devices for business […]

On Tuesday, Dec. 17 at 10 a.m. PST/1 p.m. EST/6 p.m. GMT, @eWEEKnews will host a special eWEEKChat event. The topic will be “Looking Ahead at Windows Azure Cloud for 2014.” It will be moderated by Chris Preimesberger, who serves as eWEEK’s editor of features and analysis, and will feature journalist and Microsoft software development […]

After Dell bought Compellent and its progressive virtualized storage lineup for $960 million in December 2010, it didn’t take long for it to take the smaller company’s Fluid Data marketing scheme corporatewide, effectively making Compellent its lead storage brand. Some folks at Dell’s EqualLogic storage division might have taken umbrage at this, but if they […]

Cyber-Crimes Likely to Surface During Holidays: 10 Common Scenarios by Chris Preimesberger Botnets and Distributed Denial-of-Service Attacks It is probably the most common type of cyber-attack: A retailer is targeted by a botnet, and this results in a DDoS attack that brings down the retailer’s website or sites. App Store Fraud A cyber-criminal masquerades as […]

Kroll Ontrack’s Top 10 Data Disasters Averted in 2013 By Chris Preimesberger A Cell Phone Is Not Bullet-Proof (United States) Enough said. Full recovery, 10GB of data total. Spiders! (Italy) Kroll Ontrack was called to work on a 5-year-old server that had a hard drive that had crashed. When the data recovery engineer opened up […]

Cloud storage provider Dropbox and all-purpose IT maker Dell revealed a new partnership deal Dec. 12 that could mean good news for IT managers, enterprise security officers and employees alike. Dell will offer Dropbox for Business to its customers as a service that helps employees access company information from wherever they are, yet enables IT […]

Where New-Gen Networking Is Going in 2014: 10 Predictions by Chris Preimesberger SDN Will Go Mainstream Globally SDN is already being implemented by Web 2.0 companies such as Google and Facebook. Other global companies undoubtedly will follow suit. As disruptive industry trends such as mobility, cloud, social business and big data/analytics initiatives continue to stretch […]

As more and more companies begin staking out their claims to portions of the coming Internet of things, communications processor-maker Broadcom is already in place as the proverbial 800-pound giant in one of those sectors: wireless connectivity. In fact, Broadcom is the undisputed heavyweight champion of wireless connectivity, since its chips help move 99.98 percent […]